The One

A TLA release of a Fox Meadow Films production. Produced by Michael Billy, Aimee Denaro, Caytha Jentis. Executive producer, Nancie Ellis. Co-producer, Verne Mattson. Directed, written by Caytha Jentis.With: Jon Prescott, Ian Novick, Margaret Anne Florence, Natalya Rudakova, Kelly Coffield Park, Christopher Cass, Pierce Forsythe, Michael Emery, Michael Billy.The course of true love is anything but smooth -- more like unconvincing, erratic and unresolved -- in "The One." Tracing a smitten gay man's pursuit of a straight(-laced) crush object, pic makes that quest seem more creepy than charming; some other curious elements likewise play as less than fully intentional, despite the bland overall tenor. Following gay fest travel, Caytha Jentis' indie romance is debuting theatrically Oct. 7 at Gotham's Quad Cinema. Disc and VOD release Oct. 18 will reach the usual niche viewers while reminding them that too many gay-interest titles in their rental queue end up being disappointing time-killers. Improbable aspiring corporate lawyer Tommy (Ian Novick) is introduced bragging to the requisite queeny best friend (producer Michael Billy) about last night's conquest of a hunky heterosexual who was a "gay virgin." Despite all signs of this being just another notch in his belt, Tommy vows that this time, it's really love. However, since his subsequent attempts to woo Daniel (Jon Prescott) rely heavily on lies and manipulation, it's questionable just how deep Tommy's feelings run, let alone whether we should be rooting for him. Discomfited by this one-night stand, and protesting that he'd never do anything to risk the life he's planned with fiancee Jen (Margaret Anne Florence), Daniel distances himself from Tommy. Tommy responds by joining his target's gym, befriending Jen, coercing Daniel into an ersatz "college reunion" weekend and otherwise acting like a stalker. It doesn't seem to occur to writer-helmer Jentis that in the real world, such tactics would come with a big red flag, leaving thesp Novick straining to be likable as a character whose shallowness and deceit the movie shrugs off as amusing quirks. Meanwhile, Daniel is painted as an earnest yuppie dreamboat with a stereotypical background in country-club golf courses, polo-shirted best friends cracking gay jokes at his bachelor party, etc. Eventually, he confesses to loving Tommy in return, but that seems a function of formula rather than emotional logic. "The One" later defies both formula and logic by setting up the expected fadeout, then withholding it arbitrarily, necessitating a make-do close that doesn't work at all. (Adding to the mystery, an opening-credits montage provides glimpses of a happy couple at odds with the subsequent narrative.) In another strange decision, the pic starts out with Tommy as narrator (a device soon dropped), though by the end, he's barely present and Daniel has become our p.o.v. Elsewhere, awkward transitions, some far-fetched behavior and occasional scenes that peter out pointlessly suggest elements possibly lost or abandoned between conception and final edit. Unfortunately, the uninspired, frequently flat dialogue sounds as though it survived intact. Result is romantic-dramedy Swiss cheese -- mildly palatable, yet riddled with holes. Perfs and packaging are adequate.Camera (color, HD), Ben Wolf; editor, Verne Mattson; music, Kenneth Lampl; production designer, Katherine Whitehead; sound, Ivanhoe Gadpaille; sound designer, Louis Milgrom; assistant director, Darien Sills-Evans; casting, Adrienne Stern. Reviewed on DVD, San Francisco, Sept. 25, 2011. Running time: 90 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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U re-ups Langley through 2014

Universal Pictures has exercised its option to extend Donna Langley's contract yearly early, not remarkably. Under her new deal, Langley continues as co-chairman through 2014. She'll account to Chairman Adam Fogelson, whose own deal was extedned through 2014 captured. Langley is constantly on the be the key proper business partner controlling their production department, Focus Features as well as the studio's worldwide purchases efforts.Langley has offered as Co-Chairman since 2009. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Travolta Visits Gotti Widow To Evaluate New Movie

FIRST Launched: September 23, 2011 9:13 AM EDT NEW You'll be able to, N.Y. -- Travolta Qantas Video visited the widow of mob boss John Gotti to accomplish research for his approaching movie role since the mafia kingpin. The NY Publish reviews that Travolta turned up Thursday within the Gotti home in NY City to fulfill with widow Victoria Gotti, her boy John Junior Gotti together with other key players. The Publish mentioned the Pulp Fiction star was welcomed with handshakes and hugs. He introduced something special bag for Victoria Gotti and continued to be inside more than two several hours. All he'd say when he emerged was he was doing research for your movie. John Gotti died jail time in 2002. The film Gotti: Inside the Shadow of My Father is positioned to start shooting within the month of the month of january. Craig Levinson is pointing. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Kirstie Alley: I'd Like Love, Not Sex!

La, Calif. -- Kirstie Alley features a new bod, and shes now hunting for a completely new guy! The easiest factor on the planet is always to [find sex], however dont start to see the merit because, the 60-year-old actress, who recently dropped a remarkable 100 pounds, told People. What Im trying to find is somebody who loves me deeply, Kirstie, who recently strutted her new figure throughout NY Fashion Week, ongoing. Which is crazily deeply deeply in love with me, personally. The actress, that's been divorced two occasions, is searching to think about responsibility for that benefits and drawbacks afterwards associations. In my opinion when you're getting into the mind-number of, Oh, this individual did this in my opinion, you arent taking responsibility, the star, which has teenage children boy True and daughter Lillie with second husband Parker Stevenson, told the mag. Inside the final hour, its really everything you did for you personally. Shes also wanting to discover a guy who is able to step-on her when needed. I wasnt searching for top factor before, the first sort Dwts contestant mentioned. I'd like anyone who has my back. So when Im being attacked, they fricking attack back. Now, thats bravery. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Fremantle boosts professional

FremantleMedia has upped Paul O'Hanlon to controlling director, Asia, located in Singapore.He begins in October, confirming to Ian Hogg, FremantleMedia's Asia Off-shore Boss.O'Hanlon has labored like a TV professional in a number of areas including Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, India, Afghanistan and Taiwan. He offered as worldwide agent and program director with Taiwan's Next TV, and assisted create content for 2 of Afghanistan's TV systems last year.O'Hanlon was senior Vice president of prduction for News Corp.'s Star TV in Hong Kong, and went their own independent production company from 2000-04.Most lately, he was professional producer in production and development with FremantleMedia Australia. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Zeiler: Euro nets wary of Hulu

CAMBRIDGE -- Hulu, the U.S. online service backed by NBC, Fox and ABC, is unlikely to ever sign a partnership deal with a European broadcaster.This is according to RTL Group CEO Gerhard Zeiler, speaking at the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention, on Thursday, in a session that looked at the threats and opportunities presented by Internet-enabled TV. He revealed that negotiations to form joint ventures with Hulu collapsed because European webs were not prepared to allow Hulu to generate advertising revenue around their shows.Zeiler said: "We love to work with aggregators, but there are two conditions -- we have to sell our own advertising, and we won't sell individual programs to aggregators. " The RTL topper recalled how in 2009 Hulu was confident it would roll out its service within 12 months in the U.K., France and Germany.They didn't do any deals because all the broadcasters said the same thing -- we don't want Hulu to change our Euros into Cents or our Pounds into Pence," said Zeiler. He stressed that European networks were determined to maintain control of their own channel brands and to continue selling their own airtime.In the U.K. ITV is understood to have held talks with Hulu.With catch-up services now widespread in territories such as the U.K. thanks to the BBC iPlayer and ITV.com European broadcasters believe that Hulu has missed its chance this side of the Atlantic. In the same Cambridge session in which Zeiler made his remarks about Hulu, Virgin Media's chief operating officer Richard Halton said that his company would generate one billion video-on-demand views this year in the U.K. Time shifting, more accurately individual viewing, is exploding," said Halton. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Weekend Receipts: Contagion Fever -- Catch It!

Hark, a brand new film hath unseated The Assistance for that #1 crown! All it required was Steven Soderbergh’s hypochondria-inducing Contagion, an image which will surely also boost worldwide sales of Purell throughout flu season. Even though there’s no love lost in seeing a week ago’s Shark Evening three dimensional and Apollo 18 drop precipitously lower within the ranks, the heartstrings pull for Warrior, a carefully behaved MMA film that only got a small fraction of the theater count of their rivals, and carried out accordingly. But! A minimum of it worked out much better than Bucky Larson… 1. Contagion Gross: $23,135,000 ($23,135,000) Screens: 3,222 (PSA: $7,180) Days: 1 Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion drawn on into an elemental fascination one of the American public: Paranoia. (As well as on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, believe it or not.) What it really offered audiences, just like The Assistance, appears to indicate a vital change within the movie schedule — summer time has ended, also it’s time for additional serious, grown-up fare in the box office. It remains to appear when the pandemic thriller’s reign could keep distributing within the coming days, but because of the competition it’s got a high probability of holding #1 until Moneyball and Abduction go into the charts. 2. The Assistance Gross: Eight Dollars,691,000 ($137,093,000) Screens: 2,935 (PSA: Two Dollars,961) Days: 5 (change: - 40.five percent) It required a cast of the-listers along with a global pandemic to unseat Tate Taylor’s The Assistance after its unpredicted reign at #1, but nonetheless: at $137M and counting, it’s the sleeper hit of the season. Expect the domestic drama to help keep hanging out the very best 10 for some time. 3. Warrior Gross: Five Dollars,607,000 (new) Screens: 1,869 (PSA: Three Dollars,000) Days: 1 It’s unfortunate Lionsgate didn’t open their Tom Sturdy-Joel Edgerton MMA drama in not only 1,869 theaters, since this is a movie much more potent than its logline indicates. Though their stars are increasing, leads Sturdy and Edgerton continue to be unknown to a lot of and also at $5.6M, the Gavin O’Connor-directed sports drama fell shorter than expected in the box office. That could make Warrior’s lengthy-shot honours season hopes even longer, but doesn’t everybody prefer to root for that underdog? 4. Your Debt Gross: $ 4,905,000 ($21,993,000) Screens: 1,874 (PSA: Two Dollars,617) Days: 2 (change: - 50.five percent) Despite star Helen Mirren or more-and-comers Mike Worthington and Jessica Chastain about the marquee, John Madden’s Mossad action-thriller experienced from middling reviews as well as less passionate person to person, despite getting its moments. This doesn’t bode well for Texas Killing Fields, the October pic that reunites Worthington and Chastain… 5. Colombiana Gross: $4,000,000 ($29,779,000) Screens: 2,354 (PSA: $1,699) Days: 3 (change: -46.4%) Zoe Saldana’s action heroine turn is waiting on hold relatively well, getting made it much better than, say, Shark Evening three dimensional or Apollo 18. Credit producer/co-author Luc Besson for consistently delivering the type of muscular, sexy action that audiences love — as well as for giving Avatar star Saldana an properly slinky, tough leading role. May she hang on within the top ten, guns blazing, as Hay Dogs, Drive, Abduction, and Killer Elite blast their distance to the genre pool within the coming days. — 13. Laugh inside my Discomfort Gross: $2,000,000 (new) Screens: 97 (PSA: $20,619) Days: 1 The actual success story from the weekend? Comedian Kevin Hart’s stand-up comedy special Laugh inside my Discomfort, which gained an amazing $20K per-screen average on just 97 screens within an exclusive run via AMC Theaters and built person to person largely through social networking. Meanwhile… 15. Bucky Larson: Born to become a Star Gross: $1,450,000 (new) Screens: 1,500 (PSA: $967) Days: 1 Nick Swardson’s star turn like a buck-toothed aspirant porn ingnue, shockingly, didn't even crack the very best 10. Maybe everybody required Movieline guest rater Joanna Angel’s advice and made the decision to hold back for Netflix. [Amounts via Box Office Guru]

ABC Nabs Reba McEntire Multicamera Comedy

ABC is certainly going country with Reba McEntire. McEntire is mounted on executive produce and star in Malibu Country, that has been offered like a put pilot in the Disney-possessed network. The multi-camera comedyproject, from ABC Galleries, focuses on Reba, who divorces her cheating husband and moves her family from Nashville to Malibu. There she'll attempt to reigniteher own singing career and herself and three kids from being corrupted through the materialistic and rarified Malibu world she now calls home. The project counts Kevin Abbott like a author, withNarvel Blackstock (McEntire's manager), Laura Ziskin Productions' Pam Williams, Dork Stewart (former from the Eurythmics) and Acme Productions'Mindy Schultheis and Michael Hanel. Related Subjects ABC TV Development

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John Boyega Attacks Da Brick

Spike Lee's new Cinemax boxing dramaAs among the obvious new breakthroughs of the season, Attack the Block's John Boyega has happily registered on Hollywood's radar, and he's just nabbed his first large US job. Boyega has arrived among the lead roles in Spike Lee's new Cinemax drama Da Brick, which is dependant on facets of former boxer Mike Tyson's youth. Headed by Entourage creator Doug Ellin, Da Brick will center around the titular character, Also known as boxer Donnie (Boyega) and the buddies and family. Within the pilot, compiled by Red-colored Tails' John Ridley and which Lee will direct, Donnie is launched from juvenile detention on his 18th birthday and should begin to find his means by the planet. The show is referred to as "a modern day search for what it really means to become a youthful, black guy inside a allegedly publish-racial America. "Also within the cast are Milauna Jemai as Donnie's mother, Julito McCullum as Kevin, his troubled closest friend and Kamahl Naiqui Palmer as Malik, that has loved a much better upbringing than his mates but nonetheless struggles together with his atmosphere. If Cinemax really commissions a complete series, Ridley will run the show and Boyega will receive a opportunity to bust out correctly in the usa. Nevertheless, we figure he'll manage in either case. He'll next be viewed alongside Eddie Marsan and Romola Garai in Junkhearts.

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